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posted by Dopefish on Thursday February 20 2014, @07:30AM   Printer-friendly
from the penguins-everywhere dept.

An anonymous coward writes "Former cypherpunk shares his conspiratorial view on Linux security:

Since then, more has happened to reveal the true story here, the depth of which surprised even me. The GTK development story and the systemd debate on Debian revealed much corporate pressure being brought to bear in Linux. [...] Some really startling facts about Red Hat came to light. For me the biggest was the fact that the US military is Red Hat's largest customer:

"When we rolled into Baghdad, we did it using open source," General Justice continued. "It may come as a surprise to many of you, but the U.S. Army is 'the' single largest install base for Red Hat Linux. I'm their largest customer." (2008)

This is pretty much what I had figured. I'm not exactly new to this, and I figured that in some way the military-industrial/corporate/intelligence complex was in control of Red Hat and Linux. [...] But I didn't expect it to be stated so plainly. Any fool should realize that "biggest customer" doesn't mean tallest or widest, it means the most money. In other words, most of Red Hat's money comes from the military and, as a result, they have significant pull in its development. In that respect, the connection between the military and spying agencies, etc. should be obvious.

Next, the FOSDEM: NSA Operation ORCHESTRA Annual Status Report is well worth watching in its entirety (including the Q&A at the end). To me, this turned out to be a road-map detailing how Red Hat is operating on Linux!"

 
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  • (Score: 1) by SGT CAPSLOCK on Thursday February 20 2014, @08:04AM

    by SGT CAPSLOCK (118) on Thursday February 20 2014, @08:04AM (#3258) Journal

    Man, Dopefish. Ever thought about playing Minecraft? You're awfully good at digging up relevant info, maybe it works on diamonds too! :p

  • (Score: 1) by Dopefish on Thursday February 20 2014, @08:16AM

    by Dopefish (12) on Thursday February 20 2014, @08:16AM (#3260)

    Glad you asked. I have a Minecraft server if you want to join on it some time. Might even make it the official SoylentNews server too. :)

    • (Score: 4, Funny) by SGT CAPSLOCK on Thursday February 20 2014, @08:34AM

      by SGT CAPSLOCK (118) on Thursday February 20 2014, @08:34AM (#3266) Journal

      A Soylent community Minecraft server might be kind of interesting. I'm almost a little afraid to think about the things people might build... :p

      • (Score: 1) by Geotti on Friday February 21 2014, @03:44AM

        by Geotti (1146) on Friday February 21 2014, @03:44AM (#4050) Journal

        Why be afraid?

        We'd all be building beowulf clusters of laser sharks covered in hot grits.

  • (Score: 1) by quadrox on Thursday February 20 2014, @01:19PM

    by quadrox (315) on Thursday February 20 2014, @01:19PM (#3406)

    I don't mean to play down anyone or anything here, but the document doesn't really add anything new to the discussion, does it?